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Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican Reggae Icon, Is Lifeless
Jimmy Cliff, the Jamaican reggae singer who helped popularize the style all over the world with songs like “You Can Get It If You Actually Need” and “The More durable They Come,” has died. He was 81.
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Music is like air that we breathe. And as soon as it’s there, everyone breathes it. The trade, to me, is the primary time I got here out of my mom’s womb. And I say [screaming] — and I began making my sound and I by no means stopped. Music can spotlight consciousness. And from that consciousness, folks can take some form of motion to raised the state of affairs. I feel that’s the function music has performed by way of the ages. And I feel it’s the function that it’s enjoying now. And I feel that’s the function that it could possibly play.
Jimmy Cliff, the Jamaican reggae singer who helped popularize the style all over the world with songs like “You Can Get It If You Actually Need” and “The More durable They Come,” has died. He was 81.
By Chevaz Clarke
November 24, 2025
